Step One:
Architecture with AWS & Azure Icons
For architects who need a cloud architecture diagramming tool for designing systems and solutions, ABACUS provides:
- Drawing and diagramming stencils with official AWS and Azure icon libraries
- A graph-based repository for centralizing data
- Full enterprise architecture modeling and roadmapping
- Best-in-class enterprise analytics
Step Two:
Building AWS Diagrams
In ABACUS, diagram functionality is native and fully integrated with the data repository. For busy architects this can save hours and days of time and effort:
- Use a simple drag and drop stencil to map out cloud architecture diagrams
- Link to process diagrams, network diagrams, application architectures, business capabilities, information architectures, etc.
- Share objects and elements across diagrams, maintaining consistency
- Unlike other cloud architecture visualization tools, ABACUS includes dedicated custom libraries of cloud icons (no further extensions or expenses required)
Step Three:
Managing Cloud Infrastructure & Enterprise Architecture Together
Designed for architects, and for collaboration
- Import and connect your Visio, UML, BPMN or other diagrams
- Wire them up to data integrated in your architecture repository.
- Updates to diagrams and data flow through automatically, with no need to revise tables, lists diagrams or charts manually as data changes
- Benefit from industry standards and templates including TOGAF, ArchiMate, BPMN, BIAN, NIST etc.
- Teams can collaborate to manage cloud infrastructure, applications, security, operations and processes
“The Whole Enterprise Can Have Visibility of Our Architecture”
Step Four:
Communicating Cloud Architecture Design & Strategy
Easily share cloud architecture diagrams with users across the business
- Increase familiarity and embed diagrams as tabs in Teams or email a link to your diagram
- Customise permission settings to share your diagrams only with those who are authorized to view or edit them
- Switch between technical or business-friendly icons and styles when presenting to stakeholders.
Step Five:
Benefit from Graph Database Flexibility & Analytics
Use analytics to assess costs and technical metrics of current and future state cloud architectures
- Cloud architectures can be complex, requiring a diagramming solution with an equal level of sophistication
- Enjoy a configurable and customizable graph database repository
- Build at speed with a tool that can scale to your requirements
- Capture an unlimited number of properties to provide more detail about the IT and business relationships in your enterprise
